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Clean Cut (adaptive, multimodal surgical infection prevention programme) for low‐resource settings: a prospective quality improvement study

BJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020
Clean Cut is a multimodal, adaptive, checklist‐based infection prevention programme designed to improve compliance with six critical perioperative infection prevention practices. After introducing the programme at five hospitals in Ethiopia, compliance with critical infection prevention standards significantly improved and the relative risk of ...
J. A. Forrester, N. Starr, T. Negussie, D. Schaps, M. Adem, S. Alemu, D. Amenu, N. Gebeyehu, T. Habteyohannes, F. Jiru, A. Tesfaye, E. Wayessa, R. Chen, A. Trickey, S. Bitew, A. Bekele, T. G. Weiser   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measures to eradicate multidrug-resistant organism outbreaks: How much does it cost? [PDF]

, 2015
This study aimed to assess the economic burden of infection control measures that succeeded in eradicating multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) in emerging epidemic contexts in hospital settings.
Birgand, GJC, Bourigault, C, Holmes, A, Iucet, JC, Lepelletier, D, Moore, L, Vella, V   +6 more
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Future-Proofing Nursing Education

SAGE Open, 2014
The relevance of pre-registration programs of nursing education to current and emerging trends in healthcare and society could have a significant future impact on the nursing profession.
Nicholas Ralph, Melanie Birks, Ysanne Chapman, Karen Francis   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Collective Bargaining and Technological Investment: The Case of Nurses’ Unions and the Transition from Paper-Based to Electronic Health Records [PDF]

, 2017
Does the presence of a unionized nursing workforce retard U.S. hospitals’ transition from paper-based to electronic health records (EHRs)? After tying archival data on hospitals’ structural features and health information technology (IT) investment ...
Litwin, Adam Seth
core   +2 more sources

Laughing It Off: Uncovering the Everyday Work Experience of Nurses

International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2007
During research towards her doctoral dissertation, the author noticed that nurses understated the conditions in which they worked. Seeking to understand how nursing culture shapes how nurses describe their work, she developed a “toolbox” of reflexive ...
Valerie M. Adams
doaj   +1 more source

The challenges that head nurses confront on financial management today: A qualitative study

International Journal of Nursing Sciences, 2017
Aim: To explore challenges that Chinese head nurses confront on financial management from the perspective of different levels of nursing and non-nursing managers and to provide contemporary nurse managers with suitable supports. Methods: Eighteen nursing
Yang Bai, RN, BA, Can Gu, RN, PhD, Qirong Chen, RN, BA, Jinnan Xiao, RN, BA, Dan Liu, RN, MSc, Siyuan Tang, PhD   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Patient and nurse preferences for nurse handover - using preferences to inform policy: a discrete choice experiment protocol [PDF]

, 2015
Introduction Nursing bedside handover in hospital has been identified as an opportunity to involve patients and promote patient-centred care. It is important to consider the preferences of both patients and nurses when implementing bedside handover to ...
Anderson, Anderson, Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare, Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare, Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare, Bridges, Cahill, Chaboyer, Chaboyer, Chin, Coast, de Bekker-Grob, de Bekker-Grob, Drach-Zahavy, Evans, Greaves, Grol, Hensher, Jeffs, Jeffs, Jeffs, Johnson, Johnson, Kerr, Kerr, Kerr, Lancaster, Liu, Lu, McMurray, McMurray, O'Connell, Reed Johnson, Riesenberg, Rose, Rutherford, Ryan, Scovell, Staggers, Taylor, Thurstone, Timonen, Tobiano, Tobiano, Tobiano, Train, Whitty, Wilson   +47 more
core   +1 more source

The economics of dementia-care mapping in nursing homes: a cluster-randomised controlled trial. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
BACKGROUND: Dementia-care mapping (DCM) is a cyclic intervention aiming at reducing neuropsychiatric symptoms in people with dementia in nursing homes. Alongside an 18-month cluster-randomized controlled trial in which we studied the effectiveness of DCM
Geertje van de Ven, Irena Draskovic, Elke van Herpen, Raymond T C M Koopmans, Rogier Donders, Sytse U Zuidema, Eddy M M Adang, Myrra J F J Vernooij-Dassen   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Integrative literature review of patient classification tools for nursing intensity evaluation: Focusing on comparison of South Korean and international tools

Nursing Open, 2021
Aim This study aimed to review the literature on patient classification tools (PCTs) for assessing nursing strength and to compare South Korean and international tools. Design Integrative literature review.
Yukyung Ko, Bohyun Park
doaj   +1 more source

Publication Status of Graduate Theses of Internal Disease Nursing: A Systematic Review

Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi Hemşirelik Dergisi, 2021
Introduction: Transforming master's theses into publication is important for sharing scientific knowledge.Aim: This study was conducted to determine the conversion rate of internal medicine nursing master's theses made in Turkey into scientific articles ...
Songül Karadağ, Ecem Özgül, Gülsüm Nihal Çürük   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source